Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-11
THE DAILY BEE,
COUNCIL BLUFFS
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH II.
OFFICE, No. l2, PEARL STREET.
Delivered by carrier in any part OF the city at
twenty cents per week
II. W. TILToN. Manager
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NEW spring OOOdS Ht hcttcT - tallOT.
George w. Thompson Il Co.. real estate.
See w. &. Stacy Il Co., No. GMan, for
bargains in real estate.
The plat of the Kellogg e. Stiles plat
was filed yesterday.
The Royal Arcanum entcrtains this
evening in Beno's hall.
The prisoners will be sentenced in the
district court tomorrow.
j. w. Il +. l.. Squire's abstracts are
giving goUd satisfaction.
Three Germans from Mills county were
naturalized here yesterday.
The forces mt the transfer are beng
kept unusually busy these days.
The brick is being hauled for the build
ing Of the new Catholic church, and work
will commence at once.
Squire's park addition is a sure invest
ment. Pacific avenue will be built up
with store buildings within year.
The Crystal mill team took little
dash up Main street yesterday, but a
short stop was made without damage.
John &. Fisher, of Omaha, and Lizzie
Colburn, of Council Bluffs, were yestcr-
day married by Justice Schurz at his
Office.
The Methodist ladies had n pleasant
supper with a creditable musical and
literary entertainment at the church par
lors last evening.
The Roland Reed company played last
night at Dohany's to II large audience.
The play is very amusing and the COM
pany an excellent one.
The city yesterday paid j. B. Smith &
Co. 1900 in assessment certificates
against the private property for the pay
ing of upper Broadway.
G. II. Judson yesterday sold three bicy
cles to Council Bluffs parties. The sea.
son promises to increase the number of
riders and amount of sport.
Now that the county has sold its poor
farm, the supervisors are riding about
the county looking for larger and better
one. They have several under consider.
alton.
Special meeting of Ivanhoc Comandery,
No. II, X. T., will be held this evening
for work in the Red Cross degree. All
sojourning knights are cordially invited
to be present. by order OF f. &.
Lloyd Forgrave was yesterday ar
rested on general principles. He was
found stored away in the opera house
among the rafters in an obscure hiding
place. His purpose there is not evident.
1t does not look very encouraging for
the scheme to have all the barber shops
closed on Sunday A few object, and a
few can thus prevent others, competition
being great lever in forcing open
doors.
The brick work on the ground floor of
Taylor Il Calef's building is in such a
bad condition that they found it neccs.
sary last night to put ropes across the
sidewalk for fear the front might fall out
and injure some one.
A hydrant on Glen avenue near MIR.
Gerners residence was broken yester-
day, but little trouble caused. Luckily
this is the only broken hydrant in the
city, and it is the very one which the city
has been desiring to have moved, there
being one near there, and hydrant
being needed more in other places.
At the meeting of the city council last
evening the awarding of the contract for
building the levee was laid over until to-
night, and the paving of Broadway to the
river will not come up before this body
until next week. The nightly sessions OF
the council will enable them to clear up
most all.Of the business before the new
council comes in week from next Mon
day.
The Nonpareil yesterday morning came
out with twelve pages, the space being
literally used IN presenting facts and fig
ures concerning the boom. The real
estate men realize that 1t doesn't do to
hide their light under bushel. The city
has a boom, and the next best move is to
let other folks know it. The edition yes.
terday was II helpful one in advertising
the city, and the real estate men wisely
distributed large number OF the papers
in the east.